(TNND) — The Department of Homeland Security published what it called a list of facts to set the record straight on "fake narratives" about the Trump administration's immigration enforcement efforts.

DHS said it’s “holding the media accountable for spreading disinformation.”

The department’s news release features 22 recent news headlines and social media posts it contends are wrong, along with counterpoints.

DHS took issue with a June 16 CNN headline, “Less than 10% of immigrants taken into ICE custody since October had serious criminal convictions, internal data shows.”

“FALSE,” DHS countered in bullet point style below the embedded headline. “In President Trump’s first 100 days, 70% of ICE arrests were criminal illegal aliens with convictions or pending charges.”

DHS added that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has directed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to go after “the worst of the worst,” including gang members, murderers and rapists.

Meanwhile, CBS News this week published its analysis of ICE data, via the Deportation Data Project, which it said sued to obtain the data after filing a Freedom of Information Act request. CBS noted that ICE didn’t respond to its request for comment.

CBS News said the data it analyzed showed only about 8% of ICE detainees had been convicted of violent crimes.

David Bier, the director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, wrote a couple of weeks ago that about two-thirds of people taken in by ICE had no criminal convictions. And Bier wrote that about 90% of those people had no convictions for violent or property offenses.

Bier wrote that many of the convictions for those folks were for immigration, traffic or nonviolent vice crimes.

In a social media post Tuesday, DHS singled out the CBS News article, saying, “The media continues to peddle this FALSE narrative that ICE is not targeting criminal illegal aliens. ... Additionally, many illegal aliens categorized as ‘non-criminals’ are actually terrorists, human rights abusers, gang members and more—they just don’t have a rap sheet in the US. This deceptive ‘non-criminal’ categorization is devoid of reality and misleads the American public."

DHS also pushed back on a June 28 headline from The New York Times, “Concerns Grow Over Dire Conditions in Immigrant Detention.”

“Claims there is overcrowding or subprime conditions in ICE facilities are categorically FALSE,” the DHS counterpoints read. “All detainees are provided with proper meals, medical treatment, and have opportunities to communicate with their family members and lawyers. ICE actually has higher detention quality standards than most U.S. detention spaces actual U.S. citizens. Despite a historic number of injunctions, DHS is working overtime to remove these illegal aliens from detention centers to their final destination: home.”

DHS took issue with a Los Angeles TV news anchor saying during live coverage of the immigration enforcement protests that rioters were "just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn."

DHS disputed the idea that ICE agents tried to stake out Dodger Stadium.

And the department challenged a June 23 Newsweek headline, “ICE Detains Wife of Trump-Supporting US Marine Corps Veteran.”

“FALSE. In fact, ICE detained a SERIAL CRIMINAL illegal alien,” DHS said in its news release.

DHS noted that the woman entered the country illegally and had a criminal record, including three arrests for assault.

DHS didn’t disagree that the woman is married to a Marine veteran who supports the president.

And the Newsweek story already made note of the woman’s criminal record.

“I think it's an odd thing to do, and the counter arguments are unresponsive,” Peter Loge, the director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University, said of the DHS news release.

He noted that DHS took issue with the CNN headline that less than 10% of immigrants taken into ICE custody had serious criminal convictions, but the DHS counterpoints left out the word “serious.”

“So, it doesn't contradict the fact that very few of the detentions were for serious criminal convictions,” Loge said. “It says that most of the detentions were for people with a criminal conviction, which could be a speeding ticket. Yes, of course, we should deport murderers and rapists and gang members. I don't know that we need to deport college kids who get speeding tickets."

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DHS should be a reliable narrator, Loge said. But he said poorly constructed arguments in the release undermined the department’s credibility.

Tony Payan, the director of the Center for the U.S. and Mexico at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, said he thinks DHS put out that list of counterpoints because officials are feeling the “heat” of public opinion turning against their immigration enforcement actions.

“I feel that the reason why DHS is now feeling that they need to push back is because they themselves are beginning to realize that what they're doing is being noticed, that people are beginning to react to their abuses and to the mistreatment of both immigrants but also people who disagree with them,” Payan said.

A recent Pew Research Center report found a majority of Americans disapprove of increasing ICE raids on businesses where undocumented immigrants might be working, though that approach had strong support from Republicans.

And only about a third of people in the Pew Research Center survey wanted a national law enforcement effort to deport all undocumented immigrants.

Payan said DHS was calling out the media for doing its job.

“The media is doing what the media does and what it should be doing,” Payan said. “Observing, reporting, asking questions, examining what's happening, and presenting to the public what the public should know.”

Loge said DHS shouldn’t expect to like everything the press reports.

“That's part of the point of the press, is to hold power to account,” he said.

Sometimes the press gets it wrong, Loge said. But reporters try to relay the facts as best they know them, he said.

“Sometimes power gets it wrong,” Loge added.